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3.—Zymotic Death-Rates.
The zymotic death rate is made up of the total deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup) whooping cough,
" fever " (including typhus, typhoid or enteric and simple continued
or ill-defined) and diarrhœa.
The total number of deaths registered from these diseases is
259 —98 strangers belonging to other districts and 161 parishioners
who died within the Borough ; whilst, in addition, 38 parishioners
died from these diseases outside the Borough. Subtracting the
strangers and adding the parishioners who died outside the Borough,
there is a corrected total of 199, giving a zymotic death-rate (corrected)
of 0-7 per 1,000 inhabitants. As in the case of the general
death-rates, the zymotic death-rates vary in the inner and outer
districts, viz., 0-9 as compared with 0-6 per 1,000 population
respectively (vide Tables D (1) and D (2)).
The different rates of mortality from different diseases and
groups of diseases during 1918 and 1919 are given in terms of the
total deaths (corrected) in Table E, whilst Table E gives also the
corrected deaths from the chief infantile diseases, expressed in
terms of infantile population {i.e., corrected number of births
registered).
Tuberculosis Death Rates.
The tuberculosis corrected death-rate for 1919 is I's,
i.e., 417 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis per 1,000
population, and the consumption (phthisis) death-rate, 1.2, i.e.,
342 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis)
per 1,000 population.